Project Grant CB983506040

This $215,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (DOI Fish and Wildlife Service Region 7) under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA #15.685) is intended to provide fish passage to high priority salmon species by replacing priority culverts that currently act as fish passage barriers. The project will design and construct properly sized and engineered structures to allow passage for all life stages of priority salmon species, which utilize the seasonal rearing...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685), awarded a $2,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Wallowa Lake Irrigation District in Oregon. The funding will be used to replace an existing diversion structure on the Wallowa River with a new adjustable diversion and fish ladder system. The project will also upgrade the intake structure for the Consolidated Ditch to include a vertical plate system with a fish bypass facility. This will improve water...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement under the National Fish Passage (CFDA 15.685) program to the New River Land Trust. The project will implement an aquatic connectivity and habitat enhancement initiative along the North Fork Roanoke River in Blacksburg, VA. Key activities include removing one severe fish passage barrier, enhancing 0.5 mile of in-stream habitat through stream restoration and streambank stabilization, and...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) awarded a $1,415,000 Cooperative Agreement under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) to the Kenai Peninsula Borough (KPB) in Alaska. The purpose of this project is to provide improved fish passage to high priority salmon species by replacing priority culverts that currently act as barriers with properly sized and engineered structures allowing passage for all life stages of these species. During the 2024 field seasons, KPB will manage the...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) awarded a $436,084.26 Cooperative Agreement to Trout Unlimited, Inc. under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685). The funding will be used to assist with aquatic organism passage improvements by replacing culverts at three road crossings of Upper Paradise Creek in Arizona. The project involves design, construction, and construction management activities to improve fish and other aquatic species passage and connectivity. This award is part of the...

This U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service award under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) provides $150,000 to the Nez Perce Tribe to fund the design, permitting, and construction of partial fish passage improvements at two irrigation diversions on the Wallowa River in Oregon. The project aims to restore unobstructed access to 10 miles of spawning, rearing, and foraging habitat for anadromous fish species like Chinook salmon, coho salmon, sockeye salmon, steelhead, and Pacific lamprey. Key...

The Missouri Department of Conservation, through a $395,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685), will replace an existing road-stream crossing acting as an aquatic organism passage barrier with an open-span structure. This will facilitate fish passage, sediment transport, and reduce isolation of sub-populations of the Niangua darter in the Little Niangua River basin. The project will reconnect 25 miles of Judge...

The Cooperative Agreement award of $104,843 from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) supports the Watts Toppin Fish Passage Project. This project, led by the Applegate Partnership & Watershed Council, will improve fish passage through the construction of a roughened channel at the Watts Toppin Irrigation Dam on Williams Creek, a major tributary of the Applegate River in Oregon. The project aims to benefit...

This $1,800,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) supports the Crystal River Fish Passage and Restoration Project in Michigan. The project entails replacing an undersized stream crossing consisting of three 48-inch corrugated metal pipes with a three-span timber bridge that spans the full 80-foot channel width. This will restore aquatic organism passage and access to over 2 miles of upstream habitat in the Crystal...

This $500,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) will mitigate threats to critical salmon habitat in the Yukon River Delta. The project aims to restore aquatic connectivity by removing a fish passage barrier in a Yukon River slough used by five Pacific salmon species. It will also involve inventorying and assessing fish passage barriers in the lower Yukon region, with community...